Word: retorts

Category: retorts

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Synonyms: retorts

answer, reply, response, return, counter, rejoinder, riposte, retaliation, comeback, replication

Translations: retorts

retorts in spanish

Dictionary:
spanish
Translations:
retortas, autoclaves, réplicas, los autoclaves

retorts in german

Dictionary:
german
Translations:
erwidert, Retorten, schlagfertigen Erwiderungen, Autoklaven

retorts in french

Dictionary:
french
Translations:
cornues, autoclaves, répliques, des cornues, ripostes

retorts in italian

Dictionary:
italian
Translations:
storte, repliche, autoclavi, ribatte

retorts in portuguese

Dictionary:
portuguese
Translations:
retortas, autoclaves, réplicas, destiladores

retorts in dutch

Dictionary:
dutch
Translations:
retorten, autoclaafwater, autoclaven

retorts in russian

Dictionary:
russian
Translations:
реторты, реплики, колбы, реторт, реплик

retorts in norwegian

Dictionary:
norwegian
Translations:
replikker, Frøken Perfekt

retorts in swedish

Dictionary:
swedish
Translations:
retorter, autoklaverna, repliker, retortrar, i retortrar

retorts in finnish

Dictionary:
finnish
Translations:
retortit, painekeitto, koksauskammioiden, painekeittimissä, painekeittimen

retorts in danish

Dictionary:
danish
Translations:
retorter, autoklaverne, autoklaver, i retorter

retorts in czech

Dictionary:
czech
Translations:
retorty, autoklávy, odsekne

retorts in polish

Dictionary:
polish
Translations:
retorty, riposty, konwertory

retorts in hungarian

Dictionary:
hungarian
Translations:
retortákból, retortákban, retorta, retorták, retortákban is

retorts in turkish

Dictionary:
turkish
Translations:
imbikler, Retort, kazanlar, Kafes

retorts in greek

Dictionary:
greek
Translations:
αποστακτήρες, κλιβάνων, μεταλλακτες, αποστακτήρες σε σχήμα κεράτου, αποστακτικά κέρατα

retorts in ukrainian

Dictionary:
ukrainian
Translations:
реторти, реторта

retorts in albanian

Dictionary:
albanian
Translations:
përgënjeshtron

retorts in bulgarian

Dictionary:
bulgarian
Translations:
реторти, парира, реплики, реторта, в реторта

retorts in belarusian

Dictionary:
belarusian
Translations:
реторты, рэторты

retorts in estonian

Dictionary:
estonian
Translations:
retordid, autoklaavides, autoklaavide, autoklaavidel

retorts in croatian

Dictionary:
croatian
Translations:
uzvraća, retorte, retortama, u retortama, retortama tipa

retorts in lithuanian

Dictionary:
lithuanian
Translations:
replikas, retortos

retorts in latvian

Dictionary:
latvian
Translations:
retortes

retorts in macedonian

Dictionary:
macedonian
Translations:
реплики

retorts in romanian

Dictionary:
romanian
Translations:
retorte, replici, replicile, de replici, replicilor

retorts in slovenian

Dictionary:
slovenian
Translations:
retorte

retorts in slovak

Dictionary:
slovak
Translations:
retorty

The meaning and "use of": retorts

noun
  • a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive reply to a remark. - she opened her mouth to make a suitably cutting retort
  • a container or furnace for carrying out a chemical process on a large or industrial scale. - The smelters will require 25000 tons of charcoal per annum which will be produced in retorts supplied by the Belgium company, Lambiotte.
  • a glass container with a long neck, used in distilling liquids and other chemical operations. - Retorts are the most employed of any kind of distilling vessels in the practice of modern chemistry, having in England almost superseded the use of all others.
verb
  • say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner. - “No need to be rude,” retorted Isabel
  • repay (an insult or injury). - it was now his time to retort the humiliation
  • heat in a retort in order to separate or purify. - the raw shale is retorted at four crude oil works

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